When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the emails for that particular domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually perceived as one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new company can have outstanding uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the Internet domain is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud hosting package through our company, you're going to be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your domain names. Assuming that a specific domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify particular records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to another company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool is going to enable you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain at all. If you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with just a couple of clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we offer, you are going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record takes as little as a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.